Comments on: Apple, Podium and Copyright gone bad

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:24:54 +0000

@azalea: I’m not that sure they dislike Microsoft as much as they want people believe.

By: azalea

azalea — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:22:44 +0000

Here’s the easy way to get Apple to drop this. Tell them they’re behaving just like Microsoft.

By: anonymous_is_right

anonymous_is_right — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:53:03 +0000

Apple is a bunch of

By: sharkbait

sharkbait — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:37:37 +0000

Who uses “POD” as an abbreviation for “iPod”? Seriously. I don’t think a single-letter shortening constitutes as an abbreviation.

By: Travis Griffin

Travis Griffin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:21:46 +0000

Without intending to nit-pick, I should point out that what Apple is claiming is trademark infringement, not copyright. That doesn’t make the cease-and-desist letter any less ridiculous. It would seem that the “i” portion is far more distinctive of “Apple-ness” than the “Pod” part – iPod, iPhone, iMac, iTunes, etc. And yet look at competitors (iPaq, iRiver, etc.) that have successfully used “i-Something” without diluting Apple’s trademark in the least. I haven’t done an extensive search, but my cursory glance through Google didn’t find any cases of Apple claiming trademark infringement against Hewlett-Packard (iPaq) or iRiver America, which would have been the far more obvious candidates for a trademark claim. Only time will tell if Apple can let this die in dignity, or continue to press the case in the hopes of using their resources and financial position to force Procreate into a settlement when they can no longer afford to defend the case.